They also erected a three-sided plyboard monument with one side for workers, one side for students and one side for the administration. The student and worker's side contained quotes, pictures and signed messages, but the administrative side contained a letter of support addressed to the WRC that activists are urging the administration to sign.

More than 15 planned to "sleep-in" on Beinecke Plaza last night to continue the protest and protect the three-sided monument.

"We have the attention of the administration now and so we're going to try to educate faculty and students," said Yale junior Ari Holtzblatt, an organizer of the protest.

Holtzblatt said Yale President Robert C. Levin has refused repeated requests to meet with student activists to discuss sweatshop policy, necessitating public action.

"We would prefer to sit down and have a discussion but we can't," he said. "We've had multiple attempts--he's resisted."

Thomas P. Conroy, deputy director of Yale's office for public affairs, said the university respects students' right to rally.

"It's part of the relativity of university life--free speech and free expression and disagreement among different parts of the community," he said.